, 1887-07-21
FiCki1gS.

lis Ioya that make. tie world -
round" Yes. AMI It's revenge mat
makes tie world yet sI-are.
: phy-ic;au say that avid Indian
never La- = cold in his head. IrUa,
but thore are ether things in his
head which are ahGorrent u ciylIza-
ton.
Don't you zuFPose, sad mem
Der Of the police force, that police
man knows a rogue when he sees
him7" No doubt" was tie reply:
out the trouble Ia that he does not
seize rogue when he knows him
During the week ended Saturday
July 9th the number of deaths in the
city Of New York was 1915, Of which
rs were in tenement houses, and Isl
were children under years Of age.
This Is a shocking record Of infant
mortality. The phrase Dying like
Flies" truly expresses it.
ReEry Georges land confscation
party in New York claims $4,000
members. Probably this number in
cludes about all the voters of the
metropolis who have no land; but if
they would come West and take the
land that the country offers them
free, they would soon be indignant
proztesters against land cGniiscgtion
policy,
Philadelphia papers say that the
highest price ever paid for real estate
in this country was paid 4 few days
since III that city A plat Of sixteen
feet front on Chestnut and thirty
four feet on Fourth street sold for
$S5,000-S156 per square foot. The
highes: previous price was SI45 per
square foot for : small lot in Wall
street, New York.
Agent Stern, of the Canadian Pa
cifio, IS making a bold bid for the
British tourist trade, and is being
supported in his endeavors by the
agent general of the Canadian gov
ernment in Australia. Two thirds of
the arrivals by the Mariposa, he says,
proceed east by the Canadian Pacific,
which, Mr.. Stern says, is going to
to prove the strongest rival to the
Burlington for this class Of travel.
The late Uriah A. Boyden, of Bos-
ton, recently bequeathed 100000 for
the uses OF science in the department
OF astronomy to tho trustees OF Har
ward college. The definite application
OF the legacy is to he made mainly in
the line of stellar photography. An
observatory will be erected at some
high point III Colorado, and an i'm
mediate search will be made for a
place where conditions of atmosphere
are most favorable.
Converts to protection In the South
appear to be numerous. The Birm.
ingham (Ala.) Age, q democratic
paper, says: Should protection be
discarded the millions OF dollars now
being brought into Alabama to en-
ploy Alabama labor would cease TO
flow, and the value of lands would
relapse into the condition of thirty
years ago" The same paper declares
that "tWo-thirds of the leading news
papers of the South are in favor of
protection"
It is said that business has not been
so brisk with the lumbermen for
years, and that there are orders from
san Diego and San Pedro alone suffi-
cient to keep every mill on the coast
running for six months. Every class
OF vessel IS being pressed into service.
The latest exceptional charter is that
OF the passenger steamer Wilmington
to take lumber from Gray's Harbor
This is said to be the first instance
for many years where a passenger
vessel has been put to such use.
One of Smalley's recent cable dis
patches from London 20 the New
York Tribune gives this: mo doabt
MIR. Blaine is pretty generally regard
ed here as strong political opponent
of England. But the best English
people are delighted to see him and
the personal impression he has made
Is very great. Indeed, will take the
liberty of saying that no American
holding no official position has within
my recollection been more warmly
received or so much liked and al
mired.
A. G.. Thurman, son of Allan G
Thurman, who is at present in Boston
has received O letter in which ex
Senator Thurman desires his son tc
keep his name from going before the
democratic convention as candidate
for governor. He adds: The nom
ination for governor would place NE
in a very awkward position, and
would compel me to disappoint many
well meaning and true friends. For
Notwithstanding my warm apprecia-
ton of their friendship and kind ex-
lrressions of confidence and good viii
from all, I should, in my present
health, be compelled to decline. as il
would iijur6 me and perhaps the
party
The long strike in the building
trades at Chicago Is at an end II
has been brought to 4 close through
the efforts of joint committee oi
employers and workmen. over which
Judge Tuley presided as umpire
The truths set forth by the committee
are and have always been self evident
but the fact that they have been
agreed to by the representatives OF
both capital and labor is, perhaps,
sufficient to warrant the hope that
both parties Will soon acknowledge
that each mas some rights which tho
ether Is bound u respect.
Seattle Press: The change worked
by the completion Of the railroad
across th" mountains IS made appar-
eat in newspaper offices hers by the
arrival OF the newspapers or Yakima
and kittitas counties Until lately
these journals have been among the
latest 10 arrive of our territorial OK
changes, but now they get here among
the first 1t is hard to realize that
''east OF The mountains" is now but .
few hours run from salt water, and
that the grasshopper snd the clam
are fairly III hailing distance of each
other. 1t will hereafter be . matte.
Of common occurrence for the Seattle
small boy to raii Yakima melon
patches at night, and lie youthful
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